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Career History
This is my abridged career history - for more details see
our departmental website (http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/people/p_wignal.htm)
Education
| 1988 |
PhD Palaeoecology of the Kimmeridge
Clay (University of Birmingham, supervisor: Professor
A. Hallam). |
| 1985 |
BA (Geology) 1st Class Honours,
University of Oxford |
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Recent Appointments
| 1999 -
present |
Reader in Palaeoenvironments,
University of Leeds. |
| 1989 -
1999 |
Lecturer in Palaeontology,
University of Leeds |
| 1988 -
1989 |
NERC Research Fellow,
University of Leicester |
Editorial Commitments
| 2001 - present |
Series Editor Developments in Palaeontology and
Stratigraphy (Elsevier) |
| 2000 - present |
Editorial Board of Geological Magazine |
| 1995 - present |
Editorial board of Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology
Palaeoecology |
Awards and Prizes
| 1983 - 1985 |
Open Scholarship, Worcester College,
Oxford University. |
| 1989 |
Fearnsides Medal of the Yorkshire Geological
Society. |
| 1991 |
President's Award of the Geological
Society of London. |
| 1997 |
The Clough Award, Edinburgh Geological
Society. |
Recent Keynote / Invited Lectures
| June 2002 |
The timing of the end Permian mass extinction,
Past ecological crises: a
phytocentric approach. Henk Visscher Symposium,
Utrecht, Netherlands. |
| April 2002 |
Causes of mass extinctions. Extinctions
in the history of life. Thirteenth
CSEOL Symposium, Centre for the Study of Evolution and
the origin of Life,
UCLA, USA. |
| January 2002 |
Mass extinctions and large igneous provinces.
Volcanic and Magmatic
Studies Group, annual meeting, University College London.
Abstracts Book,
57-58. |
| November 2001 |
Black shales on the basin margin. GSA
Annual Meeting, Boston.
Abstracts with Programs, 33, A-335 - 6. |
| June 2001 |
The imperfect link between
volcanism and mass extinction, Earth system
processes, Geol Soc/GSA meeting, University of Edinburgh.
Programmes with Abstracts, 67 |
| October 2000 |
The environmental impact of large igneous
provinces. ESF-sponsored
workshop on large igneous provinces, Grenoble, France. |
| September 2000 |
The end-Permian mass extinction. British
Association for the
Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, Imperial College. |
| July 2000 |
Extent and duration of the
Permo-Triassic superanoxic event. University of
Vienna. Catastrophic events and mass extinctions (4th
Snowbird Conference). Abstract volume, p. 241. |
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